Ticketing giant Ticketmaster is facing new allegations that the company withheld tickets from the recent general on sale for a Nashville, TN Lady Gaga concert, only to list the tickets for sale with significant price mark-ups on secondary ticketing websites.

According to an investigation by Nashville's NewsChannel 5, five tickets for the concert were found for sale at above face value prices on secondary ticketing site StubHub. NewsChannel 5 traced the source of those tickets back to Ticketmaster's parent company Live Nation, with the tickets designated for "Live Nation executives" in internal documents.

New Jersey took a step toward restructuring its state ticketing laws on October 16, 2012, when the New Jersey Senate Commerce Committee passed Senate Bill 875 with a vote of 5-1.

Under the terms of the bill, New Jersey's ticketing law would be modified in several ways. First, the bill would end the restrictive practices surrounding paperless ticketing. One of the hottest issues in the realm of ticket sales, paperless ticketing has been making headlines as fans around the world have been speaking out against the practice. Under many paperless ticketing policies, in order to pick up purchased tickets at the venue, the buyer must be present and present the credit card used to make the purchase. This can cause havoc when tickets were purchased as gifts, especially when the purchaser does not live near the site of the event.

A recent class action lawsuit, filed September 10, 2012 in the United States District Court in New York, alleges that Live Nation and Ticketmaster violated New York state law by offering solely paperless ticketing.

After tickets to a February 2012, Kalamazoo, MI concert from Elton John were scooped up in a matter of minutes by the suspected use of ticketing bots, Michigan citizens demanded action be taken to stop such an event from happening again. The Michigan House and Senate are currently debating bills that would make it illegal to use or sell ticketing bot software in the state.

Over the past several years, numerous high profile concert ticket sales have been hindered by the suspected use of ticketing bot software. While individuals wait online to purchase tickets, ticketing bots allow their users to jump to the front of the line and purchase large numbers of tickets at one time. This very often leads to concerts and other high profile events selling out in a matter of minutes, leaving the Average Joe with no tickets. Those same tickets will then appear on secondary ticketing sites being sold at above face value.